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  • Eustace, “wilt thou tell our venerable Superior what ails thee? art thou vino gravatus, man? if so we will have thee to thy cell.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • I say further with him yet, I have inserted ([4459] levicula quaedam et ridicula ascribere non sum gravatus, circumforanea quaedam e theatris, e plateis, etiam e popinis) some things more homely, light, or comical, litans gratiis, &c. which

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • You were, I presume, "he stirred a little heap of broken glass with his foot as he spoke," _vino gravatus_ when they relieved you of your tunic.

    The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907

  • "Pardon me, your Reverence," replied O'Finigan; "_non ebrius sed vino gravatus_, devil a thing more."

    The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • "Ay," said the schoolmaster, "upon the principle that _in vino veritas_; but you know that _gravatus vino_ and _ebrius_ are two different things -- _gravatus vino_, the juice o 'the grape -- och, och, as every one knows, could and stupid; but _ebrius_ from blessed poteen, that warms and gives ecstatic nutrition to the heart."

    The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • "He says," replied the master, "that I am _ebrius_, whereas I replied that I was only _vino gravatus_, by which I only meant _quasi vino gravatus_; but the truth is, gentlemen, that I'm never properly sober until I'm half seas over -- for it is then that I have all my wits properly about me."

    The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • "And now that this churl is gone, Father Philip," said Eustace, "wilt thou tell our venerable Superior what ails thee? art thou _vino gravatus, _ man? if so we will have thee to thy cell."

    The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

  • I got home, fatigued and _vino gravatus_, about eleven o'clock.

    The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

  • Note 121: Must., p. 39, chap. 113: "Quomodo cognoscimus quibus causis ploret infans, ut propter cibos? fasciam principaliter inspicientes ne adstricta sit aut ne iacens manum aut pedem torserit aut aliqua re punctus sit, aut abundantia cibi vel lactis ploret, inspicientes etiam ne aut plurimis coopertoriis gravatus sit aut ne parvitate eorum perfrixerit aut nimio sole aestuaverit. si enim aliqua re punctus est, subito plorare incipit. coopertoria etiam plurima vel parva et visu probantur et tactu … si autem abundantia cibi premitur vel lactis, huc atque illuc se proicit et plena praecordia habet … si vero aliqua inaequalitas est, et lac accipere non vult et macrior efficitur. ex praedictis ergo signis omnes ploratus eius separari possunt." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Nec gravatus lenflf plauftro in caftra dicitur adve£lus, vocat* que in confilium ita ferme locutus effe, tK nihil fententiae fuae mutaret; caufas tantvBi | adjiceret.

    Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libri qui supersunt XXXV. Titus Livius Patavinus, Jean Nicolas Lallemand 1775

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